[FX.php List] Embed php into HTML or vice versa?

[Kevin Futter]

On 1/9/06 11:08 AM, "Jonathan Schwartz" <jonathan at eschwartz.com> wrote:

> Hmmm... so how would you do that for the foreach statement?...
> 
> 
> <?php foreach($searchResult['data'] as $key => $value)
> {
> echo "<tr class=\"ver12\"><td><ahref=\"famdetail.php?recid=";
> $recordDetails=explode('.',$key);
> $currentRecord=$recordDetails[0];
> echo $currentRecord."\">".$value['FamilyName'][0];
> echo "</a></td>";
> }
> ?>
> 
> Jonathan

One option would be like so:

<?php
foreach($searchResult['data'] as $key => $value)
{
    $recordDetails=explode('.',$key);
    $currentRecord=$recordDetails[0];
?>
<tr class="ver12"><td><a href="famdetail.php?recid=<?php echo $currentRecord
. "\">" . $value['FamilyName'][0]; ?></a></td>
<?php
}
?>

That's not necessarily the only way to do it - remember, I'm not advocating
absolutes here. Being true to my approach, I would ordinarily drop out of
PHP to close the opening <a> tag, but I've taken a pragmatic approach here
in printing it out with PHP as part of the existing echo statement. I find
the clear delineation between HTML (or whatever markup language we're
talking about) and PHP much easier to read and debug. As Steve pointed out
earlier, it's also closer to the MVC model that most web apps try to pursue.

The only other tip I'd give you is that when you do concat HTML and PHP, put
spaces before and after your concat character (.); they're too easily lost
or mistaken for full stops (periods) otherwise.


-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/



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